A tribute to all the people who lost their lives to HIV during the pre-Olympic Barcelona.
October 21, 1986. Javier, dying of HIV complications, dreams of reuniting with his middle brother, Juan Carlos.
“In the summer of 2019 I began my research process to write a work of fiction about HIV; he had already tried to grasp this subject a few years before, but at that time he did not have the knowledge to deal with it with all its complexity, both emotional and political.
Barcelona was chosen to host the Olympic Games from 92 to 1986, while the HIV epidemic was spreading through the streets of the city, and the common strategy at the time was silence, turning the record of the victims into something private. , alien to the official narrative of the institutions of that time. This work is a tribute to all the people who lost their lives due to HIV, to those who live with it today, and to those who raised their voices when it was still taboo; to the LGBT + group, to those who are no longer there, to those who survived those times, to those who survive to the present (because as the author Rubén Serrano says with the title of his new book, “No estamos tan bien”, and those yet to come.
Oriol Bertran
Directed and written by Oriol Bertran
Played by Sergio Navarro
Scenography: Natalia Jiménez
Assistant director: Clara Peteiro
A production of Aeolian R&D
Emerging Creators Show 2021
More information and tickets at teatreolia.cat/hacerse-el-muerto/
